Do you want to learn to do green screen you can see the green screen effect being done now in
other words you can see behind me that there's a different background and I'm at the front and
I can bring text onto the screen etcetera and I do this by using what we call the green screen effect
in this video I'm going to take you through exactly how to do this in Movavi I'm going to
show you how I do the filming I'm going to show you exactly what you need to do in Movavi to make
it work and then I'm going to show you lots of techniques and tricks that you can use to make
your green screen even more interesting as always really hope you like the video and if you do
please like it please share it with other teachers and of course please comment on it what do you
think of the green screen idea is it something that you are thinking of doing let's get started
now technically what you really need is a green screen you can buy these on amazon along with two
lights two lights seems to be the minimum I've tried to do green screen with one light and it
doesn't work very well and the idea really is that you're going to film yourself in the middle here
and you've got a green screen and then what you're going to do is bring that into movavi
and tell movavi to delete all of the green from the picture and that will leave just your outline
and then you can add in another picture in the background now i'm going to show you obviously
how that technique works in a minute but i just want to give you a couple of clues
when you're doing green screen to really help you do it it's not costly the whole
setup that i've got at the moment i think was around 80 pounds and that is i've got
two lights and then a green screen and even the green screen doesn't have to be that big
certainly my green screen is not as big as this one here that we can see in this picture
so this is the setup that i've got one green screen two lights and i stand in the middle i come
forward a little bit and then i'm actually filming with my mobile telephone so i've got a smartphone
it's a fairly good one and the smartphone has got a good enough camera to do the green screen really
well now obviously if you've got more lights it's better but with two lights it generally works okay
one tip i can give you make sure that you put the lights to the side so that there isn't a
shadow behind you when you're standing in front of the green screen you don't want too much
shadow you'll see in a minute why because it can create problems when you actually work with Movavi
okay so you've seen how you do the filming and it's actually quite simple what we're going to
focus on now is technically what you need to do within Movavi to make the green screen work
so here you can see the result of some filming that I did so you can see that I'm on the screen
there's the green screen behind me there is a bit of a shadow but it's not too much you really want
to try to avoid the shadow and you'll see why in a minute now all i need to do now is two things
really first of all cut this because obviously i don't want this little bit here on the end
and then turn this green color into nothing in other words delete it completely from the picture
and Movavi is capable of doing that so let's go through the magic uh normally what we just do
first of all is choose a background video in other words the background that's going to be behind me
and in Movavi you've actually got uh here a whole set of free videos and any of these videos would
work perfectly um let's just take a quick example let's imagine that I wanted to say perhaps use
this one so double click on this bring it onto the timeline and that would be my background
and then I would be in front of that now I actually have a background that I already use
but any video will work the background that I'm using at the moment is this one here and the only
difference is on this particular video it's a bit longer and I've already added a title at the top
and I'm going to be showing you that a bit later anyway so we've got the video on the screen and
the next thing we need to do now is to bring on a second video so we're going to click here and add
a new track a video track so we've added a second track and just make sure that your play heads
right have been in drag the second video onto the screen so you've now got two videos on the screen
now the important thing is if we start to play this you'll notice
that this video is dominating okay and there are s various things that we can do to change that
the first thing that we need to do though is to come down to click here with this video selected
come down to click here and click on crop and rotate and the first thing we're going to do
is we're going to crop off a lot of this video because we don't need it we're going to be we're
going to be deleting the background anyway we certainly don't want this little bit here
outside of the green screen so we're going to just bring that in and crop that and click on that and
now instantly you can see okay now the next thing I'm going to do as well is I'm going to need to
slightly uh resize it and to do that I need to click on overlay and this is going to allow me now
to resize that image so I'm going to put it like that and I'm going to move it over this side okay
so I'm just basically I've worked with cropping the image first and then I've gone to overlay
and I'm resizing the overlay just to make sure that it's a bit smaller don't worry about all of
this this is all going to disappear now I'm simply going to come down to one more button chroma key
I'm going to it's already selected actually so I'm just going to come onto the screen and it says
basically the chroma key is saying what color do you want to disappear from this
picture and I would say well I want this color to disappear and I click on it and then it disappears
suddenly I am now on the screen with a background and if I play this video just a little bit
hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com today that is how I do
the technique don't forget to click on the apply button so that you've actually done that forever
and we're all finished okay now what we're going to do now is look at some of the tricks and some
of the effects that we can do with this green screen so we can bring text onto the screen we
can change the background we can even move where we are on the screen so I'm going to
show you some of the basic techniques that I use when working with green screen to make it even
more effective just a super quick break from the video if you are interested in learning more about
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get back to the video okay so let's start to have a bit of fun and I'll explain these things really
clearly to you first thing we're going to do is just come down to the video here make sure that
you select that video of me and we'll do it at this point any point we'll do I'm just going to
cut that video so we now literally got two pieces and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to come
to the tools so click on the tools click on the overlay tool you can either click here
or click here click on the overlay and then select only this part of the video
and I'm going to move myself in that part to this side okay
so make sure that you've only got that part of the video selected remember you cut this so it's
now two videos so the result of that will be that this part of the video I'm on this side topic and
it's been such a positive part of the delivery of my courses and be great to show it to you as well
so you can move yourself around you could even resize yourself so again if I was selecting that
and I clicked on the overlay I could at that point I've made myself bigger or smaller okay
so remember though to select the correct piece of video that you want to work with
so let's look at a few other things you can do one of them is text I often bring text onto the screen
um let's say for example work here in this part of the video let's just move to the playhead say
to about here and I might want some text to come onto the screen so I've clicked over onto the text
button I've got lots of options here a nice one is these lower thirds so I'm just going to click
uh here and I'll choose this one here drag it on where you want it to happen and just drop that on
now you can change the text very simply by just for example coming in here and writing
something different be careful of the size make sure that you've got the size
set correctly that looks really big so I'm going to put that down to about 14
and I'm just going to write again let's put for example teacher training videos or let's
in fact let's just put my let's edit the first part double click on that one and we're going
to just change the name there to Russell Stannard so let's put Russell and Stannard
and you might want to be careful here again just watch the size of the text that looks very
big so I'm just going to select that text make sure I've got that back to about 24.
24 is going to be too small let's try about 60 there we are maybe a little bit bigger
let's try 72 that's nice so now what we've got is if we again just play the video back a little bit
there hopefully will be an animation hi this is Russell from teachertrainingvideos.com
today I'm going to look at and actually I need to change the second part of the text as well
so if I click on the second part here and then I can put for example um let's put uh teacher
okay and again what's the text size I can remember you can select it
and I like these because they're already pre-animated and that makes it really
kind of nice okay so if we now play that we've got a little bit better hi this is Russell Stannard
from teachertrainingvideos.com today I'm going to look at e-portfolios and I'm going to show you the
incredible success that I've had obviously you could move that and place it somewhere
else on the screen now you have a lot of other options with text another nice one is just basic
and you can bring that again onto the screen let's imagine we want to add something here
okay so again you can move it around to where you want it and then just add in your text so
I'm going to say for example we're talking about green screen so I'm going to write green screen
and again if I now move the play head just back so you can see that very simple but again this
has got a nice animation on it I've had using e-portfolios in my teaching and learning I'm going
to stop okay and again you've got a big selection of options in terms of augmenting the quality of
the video and particularly when I'm doing the introductions when I'm using the green screen
I often bring text on to kind of support what I'm saying now I do want to make the point that
you can use any video so I'm going to delete everything that's on the screen so I'm selecting
the whole lot and pressing delete I'm literally going to start again so now that we've cleared
the screen we're going to click up on the top here and we're going to use a video just want to
make the point that you can use any video you want and I'll use this one here so I'm going to double
click on it and then all I'm going to do is come up again to the file import if that's the media
bin now I'm going to drag on another video on top of it remember we've now got to these two videos
remember once we've done that we do need to come down first of all and crop this image
so remember clicking on the tools come to the crop button and just crop that down because you
don't need all that um film or video footage on the side there you just need that area there so
then apply it immediately we can now see now come over to the overlay picture in a picture
and resize it in fact it's kind of resized anyway so that's absolutely perfect I'll put it about
here we're nearly there and then finally you just want to come down in the options here click on
chrome key the chrome key is already selected you don't even need to do anything and then you click
on the screen and if you've done the color really well then the green screen effect really well then
it will disappear straight away if not you do have this tolerance here so if you need greater or less
tolerance you can kind of work and see how much tolerance you need if I perhaps put it down right
down low then you'll see the picture starting to disappear so I need to get to around about uh 20
tolerance before everything disappears and that's a good sign that the background color easily
disappeared so that can help a little bit don't forget to click on apply suddenly now as I've said
anything can be the background and if we played that video just a few seconds
and that's how simple it is really hope you like that video please come over to
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